Overview
Address
302-320 W Cordova St, Vancouver BC
Neighbourhood
Downtown
type
Commercial
Protection & Recognition
- M: Municipal Protection
Description
Built in 1903, its early businesses included a clothier and hairdresser but, by 1906, the building housed the English Bay Bathing and Athletic Club and Con’s Billiard Room. These uses provided much needed recreational space for the seasonal resource-based workers during their time in the city.
For the next decade, sports clubs, barbershops, billiard halls, and a saw company occupied the premises. Norris Safe and Lock operated their firm from this location until 1921 when it was remodelled and turned into a café.
Food services continued until the 1940s, after which the building sat vacant. Other than a dressmakers supply shop, there has been little retail activity in the past sixty years.
Source
Canada's Historic Places
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